E.B White’s “Once More to the Lake” explores his intrapersonal struggle with mortality as he takes his son to a lake that his father used to bring him to. The thesis in the second paragraph written as, “It is strange how much you can remember about places like that once you allow your mind to return into the grooves which lead back” is supported throughout the essay as he transitions through time periods of life by viewing himself in his own child and father’s eyes. This is also the point in the text where we learn about the idea of the story instead of progressing with the narrative. However, it is through the narrative that we learn of White’s fond memories that ultimately make him distraught over his passing life.
Moving throughout the essay the author writes about “the years” giving the impression of time. He wrote “there had been no years.” It seems that White’s reflection on the past is so vivid that as he relates with the present; time is frozen. White is able to place himself back into his own childhood later in paragraph 10 when we read, “break the illusion and set the years …show more content…
These memories have lead him to have an internal conflict of facing his own world as he is consistently feeling as if he is viewing life through his child’s eyes. Nevertheless as we reach the last sentence of the essay that reads “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death,” we can establish that White feels utterly distraught. Using the word “death” allows for the reader comprehend that he is internally processing all of the memories around him and realizing that his own adolescence is over. He is know longer at the beginning of
Moving throughout the essay the author writes about “the years” giving the impression of time. He wrote “there had been no years.” It seems that White’s reflection on the past is so vivid that as he relates with the present; time is frozen. White is able to place himself back into his own childhood later in paragraph 10 when we read, “break the illusion and set the years …show more content…
These memories have lead him to have an internal conflict of facing his own world as he is consistently feeling as if he is viewing life through his child’s eyes. Nevertheless as we reach the last sentence of the essay that reads “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death,” we can establish that White feels utterly distraught. Using the word “death” allows for the reader comprehend that he is internally processing all of the memories around him and realizing that his own adolescence is over. He is know longer at the beginning of